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So much to do as fall is upon us with the winter season fast on it’s heels, weather wise anyways.

My flock of visiting Juncos have arrived which is a sure sign of snow season getting closer and closer and our northern neighbors have already received theirs. Soon I will be able to hang up bird feeders without constant worry about the neighborhood bears wanting in on the action as well. We now have a resident Bobcat not sure if it is male or female but I will keep the camera charged and ready for its appearance.

I have been teaching Watercolor classes I know can you believe it 🙂 I have so much fun doing the classes as I take all I struggled with being mostly self taught and let the watercolor take center stage as it should. No bells and whistles just letting it mix and mingle until it speaks to each students heart. It is about fun and joy they can find enough to stress about as can you and I.

I had the first of my two craft fairs and it was very successful and the Boy Scout troop made some much needed cash. I sold signed and numbered Giclee prints and lots of cards mom must be watching over me as we come up to the second anniversary of her death. The holidays are hard having no family left to speak of but I know I am not alone.

I promised some photos of what I have been doing to get my property ready to open it up for Art Shows and Classes as well as Plein Air gatherings.

Here are a few before and after shots as I just rented a machine to cut down all the brush so I can begin to put down paths of wood chips for visitors to follow down to the river banks and out into the forest though flowers will also be available with all my new additions this past spring.

So though it looks messy I can finally walk around without being covered with ticks from all that brush and I now have more land to fix and make suitable for growing old and others enjoying one thing I am excited about is friends have offered to build me a ranch home 2 Bedrooms brand new so I can knockdown my old home I no longer want to climb up on the roof to clean 🙂 I am blessed.

I will also add a new roof to the barn/studio and a new front glass door to let the sunshine stream in to the work tables. Not sure where to go to find the perfect door that will sit behind the sliding barn door but so happy for GOOGLE 🙂 I will paint it in the spring I was hoping my son would put an artistic scene on it but not sure where he is and what he is up to these days just hope he is also happy.

Flooding continues to be a problem here but I have folks working on that as I update my blog first make them aware then demand change 🙂 stay tuned!

Happy Thanksgiving to all my US friends and safe holidays to the rest of you from so far away.

In The Old Days We Travelled By Foot, no wonder we all got to grandma’s house on time, for family gatherings.

Family and friends now live with so many miles between they must travel by air and rail as well as packing up the family car. No wonder today in the United States has become a day of nightmares for all even if you are just making the dinner, you begin to worry about all of them travelling to you.

Today will be one of epic weather events up and down the east coast, in fact I am not even sure of any other disastrous weather across the US as we are just getting bombarded with news of doom and gloom and traffic nightmares. Is it too late to hope for it to stay out to sea 🙂

I am hoping you all have a wonderful day tomorrow either at work or with family and maybe you will watch football and nap after the huge meal or go shopping for all the deals each store is trying to out do the others with, for your hard earned buck just please stay safe out there, I do not have to tell you it is crazy out there.

We will clear most of what we get for snow tonight so we can get out of our yard by mid day and travel not so far to my brothers home for just a few hours of laughter and fun with family. I made fresh cranberry sauce with a zip. I stuffed the butternut squash and mushrooms no green bean casserole for this girl. I made a hot artichoke and spinach dip that is so very cheesy not sure I will have room for the BIRD!

Tomorrow I hope to be the start of a new family tradition of loving and forgiving one another for being human with our own heartache and pain and know that life is worth fighting for and that family is all we truly have. We all have faults and problems of our own and you know what it comes down to the miles in between. No longer sitting around each others tables and seeing what each other are going through on a day to day basis makes misunderstandings more probable.

Cal your family and tell them you love them very much. Swing by if they are close enough and give them a really good hug.
I swear if after 10 years I have been invited to be apart of my once loving family before Dad died anything is possible.

Keep the faith!

Should you find yourself alone stop at a shelter to help feed the people who have lost their way and families or go to a local hospital and spread some love and tell some stories and watch the difference one person can truly make, what ever you do please do not spend your day alone dwelling on what others have done to you. That would be better than any turkey dinner.

So far behind I saw I have 300 of your blogs I have yet to see. Getting this place squared away is becoming a full time job and all I want to do is create. Don’t feel bad 🙂 I work around here potting up flowers and cutting the lawn and am now thing of building a set of stairs leading down to the lower yard so I can weed whack easier. We had a small straight tree fall one day and it has laid where we left it after cutting off all the limbs it is time for me to re-purpose. I will make some cuts into the hill and add a piece of tree then cut a little further down and do another level till I am at the bottom and have used the whole tree! Yes eventually it will rot and become one with the soil but it’s OK by then I will not want to mow this place anymore. My man misses mowing so I have him do things around here I can’t. Like he is taking the pieces from our gazebo and re-purposing them into a structure I can use as a greenhouse. I will ask him to dig a root cellar too! He has taken apart a generator for one piece to use on our windmill so we can do away with that bank of HUGE batteries and go direct from wind to plug I like the idea of living green and using things till they are trash and even then I recycle them into their proper container at the town dump.

Update on Mom she finds out today if she can come home which means I will go stay with her for 5 days a week at her home. I will cook and clean for her. I will take her through her rehab moves and get her to appointments and do shopping for her. My brother needs rest and less worry he is not well and if I can do this for the two of them it is the least I can do. Since Dad died we have not been a close family pain and hurt and loss can do that or in some families it can make your stronger. I will do all I can and not kick myself for things I can’t. I have come a long way in a year and for that I am so grateful.

Just got word from son that the piece he sent to NYC Art Museum for a auction to help the gallery sold for more than $6,000.00 my wish is that he now sees himself as a true artist and not a troubled soul. Good news from all sections of my life and yet more reasons to be filled with joy.

The birds greet me each morning with beautiful songs and the bears have not bothered us for awhile but I bring in seed for the night but then mice came in for seed and cat worked overtime 🙂 all is finally right and hole repaired! Way I see it if a mouse can come in so can a SNAKE and that will not happen on MY WATCH!

I have been taking photos and adding them into my online stores with early morning coffee while the home is full of sleeping sounds from the three of them and in the evenings while watching my music shows The Voice and American Idol I paint. I am trying to do a body of work as my teacher asked me to do. I have chosen trees for now but have no idea of the best way to preserve them and keep them clean and ready to share when I am ready. If you are an artist how do you do this? I am too prolific to fame each piece and really just want them ready so when asked to show portfolio they look as nice as when I signed them. Not sure what to do. Most of mine are made to float not for mats. So much easier to take a photo and sell them as prints or as a shower curtain or some bedding or maybe a card. 50 to 100 pieces of Watercolor Art is ALOT how do you do it?

I will leave you with one I just did and a photo or two of my flowers and my wish for you all here in the US is for a safe and wonderful Memorial Day weekend it will be my BLOGS anniversary when I first met some of you dear friends another reason for gratitude. For those in other countries you know I wish you well and what ever the weather in your part of the world I hope you are enjoying it and getting out as well. Life is too short to let it fly by.

I am working on catching up with as many of you as I can. Have a great week!

The last day of March I was not allowed a midnight snack as I would finally go in to have the shoulder addressed.

April Fool’s Day no wonder I was moved up no one else wanted to take a chance I on the other hand was hoping for less pain and more use.

I had PT the next day yes real quick and tomorrow the stitches come out and more work twice a week for 6 to 8 weeks will begin in earnest.

I have a ice cuff I put on after exercises so I have no need for medication.

Life is good!

My son had another show last night in WY and I sat at home painting Roses he had Rose Art to sell and neither of us planned any of it I just decided to chill before surgery with a few hours of painting with a Artist from Russia that lives here locally in NH her name is Marina Forbes.

So all is well just been doing nothing much at all really

Today the plan is to ride down into the city and meet one of the Bloggers I met when I first started mine here. Maybe a quick lunch somewhere and my man can hunt the coastline and JT can meet one of her admirers 🙂I will stop by my Moms on way out of Boston as she just had a procedure the same day I did.

Love to all of you

Eunice😦 too much rain and snow melt and a bum arm to pull a beaver damn out with

What I did before surgery they did not turn out looking like the Rose in my course but I relaxed and that was my only mission in all that pain

when she turned 50 I would still be 49 🙂Just keeping it real even back then.

Next week the skin cancer on my face will be removed and then I have to take my marriage certificate to the government agency in order to prove I am entitled to my ex-husband SS check. I was told he passed away after Christmas. So many things I could say but it is best to just pray he now rests in peace as now I finally can.

Not sure I will be any better off financially, as I do not know what he has been doing for work if anything, since last seeing him in 1997. Even $10.00 more each month will cover one month electricity each year.

I have been thinking I want to build a Coyote/Hawk proof chicken coop, on skis or wheels, so they can safely free range the property eating all the bugs from one spot to the next. Eggs are a big part of my diet. You see protein helps to keep you full and satisfied longer than empty carbs say like a bag of chips 🙂 I have a friend who is a Body Builder and has been a inspiration to get back into shape pain or no pain and she devourers a dozen a day! I could also sell them for $3.50 a dozen for Organic Eggs and still have plenty for me and cover the cost of anything I would feed them over what they find in the yard.

Can you just picture me outside with my Watercolors watching the chickens peck the ground and clucking all day while that cute little Border Collie begs for yet another toss of her FRISBEE, yes friends life is good, well till I look outside and see RELAITY! It is below 0 temps F and snow up to my head or higher in some piles but seeing where some gradual melt has occurred under trees up on the sunny hill, where there is DIRT!

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I have to thank you for doing the poll on Orchids for me. A couple came about ahead but not by a landslide I think it says you are all so kind lol or that you also adore Orchids. I am in good company. Again thanks for your help. Now if it got warm I could take their photo in natural light 🙂

For all of you facing mudslides, heavy snow and monsoons please stay safe. I will say a prayer as March begins that weather settles down this is going to be a scary thaw otherwise.

It was windy and cold so we stayed home. JT was tired of staying in so I slid my boots on and wrapped a warm scarf across my head and face lol I must be getting old 🙂 and when I grabbed the camera she ran off to get her Frisbee. She is too smart but I must have told you that before. Most of us are now old friends. I still didn’t have my coat on and she was running back and forth from the door to me in the kitchen. Going on 8 but some days more like a two year old.

I took her out to the area that was clear of snow and where the least ice was on the bare ground. Last thing either us needs is an emergency room on Christmas morning.

As you can see by the shadows it was a sunny day but very cold, too cold to go to walk the beach in Maine as we had planned. Besides between VT and Maine over 100,000 were having Christmas with no power. Most people up here in the northeast are smart about having two sources of fuel to heat their places with. We have propane that almost ran out before he showed up Christmas Eve at almost 6 PM and back up is nut coal, I love coal heat. We use propane for cooking too and now we have an electric water heater I have never had one of them before but with gas stove I can light the burner with a match and boil water in a pinch.

I needed to rest my shoulder after I threw her toy over and over so I asked her if she wanted to go see if we could find some beaver. She led the way!

So down to the rivers edge we went all the while making sure we did not slide in!

See the tracks? He pulled a section of the dam to save our land we knew they would come but we are never quick enough to catch him in the act!

Maybe if we follow these tracks we can catch him being a busy beaver seems by the vegetation here where the tracks lead to that he has chewed off most of my beautiful Forsythias. They are tough and will grow back but I did not want them PRUNED!

Want to see how he gets here when he forgets his ice skates at his Beaver Hut?

Swim out from under the ice climb across the land down to grab more of my beautiful bushes then back to his damn DAM!

I know your laughing right lol I am telling you I feel like Elmer Fudd and the rascally rabbit 🙂They slip in from the water at my lower yards edge too

And head right for my seriously “WEEPING WILLOW TREE ” where JT is on it’s scent! she is such a good girl but she is a herder not a hunting dog.

We hope you had a Wonderful Christmas.We had our Christmas Ham with Baked Potato, Acorn Squash and Carrots to end the wonderful day spent together at home. No babies, no presents from a store but a warm home and hot meal what more could we ask for. We have all we will ever need except for Peace On Earth so tonight after dessert, a simple brownie, when we close our eyes that is what we will hope the world can get as it’s gift from all of us.

With Love from me too you and a wish that you and your families travel safely so we can all await the New Year TOGETHER

I wanted to wish you all a Merry Christmas and for those who do not celebrate the birth of our Christ a very Happy Holiday Season to you as well.

I remember the days of our family home on Christmas morning. We, the three of us children, were so very lucky to have what was waiting under our tree, be it real or the metal one with that colorful wheel. We never knew of the struggle or the monies spent for months to follow, to pay for it all. Life is simple through the eyes of a child or that is how it seemed when I was a kid. I was blessed with a Mom and Dad. A roof over our heads and a wonderful feast laid out on the kitchen table.

For many years Thanksgiving was spent up here in New Hampshire with my Mother’s side of the family where all would come together as one and give thanks for what we had. Back then I never gave thought of what others went through to pull it off. They worked hard each and every day and lived within their means. We had mini Christmas that weekend as well because usually Dad would take us to his parents house for Christmas school break.

Dad worked all day and then worked on the car he would load up with presents which we never knew were ours, see what I mean about simple times. We were children who spent the days outside playing after school never giving a thought as too what the parents had going on. No wonder they were stressed, I see that now. The car was packed with gifts for grandparents and us then in went all the clothes we would all need for a road trip to Nana and Grandpa’s. You see I have since learned by trucking it was 660 miles each way. With three rambunctious children and our dog Teddy. We made this journey from Massachusetts to Pennsylvania most Christmas holidays. Maybe that is where I found the love for the road. Staying awake with Daddy driving in the middle of what I now know was blizzards, helping him keep track of the white line on the edge of the road. He had his whole family with him in our old car with a piece of plywood on the folded down seat for us all to sleep. Daddy never did and I am sure Mom tried to always stay awake so Daddy could as she was his company, on this journey. So today with the saved tree from the dump with no gifts under it, I remain thankful for all I have ever had for it is more than many others never did.

With Daddy gone and grandparents too as well as all but two Aunts and 2 Uncles my family now three brothers and my Mom, we no longer have those times together. That is what I miss the most as this holiday nears FAMILY.

Today I am thankful and grateful for all of you I follow and to those who follow me, for we are a family of sorts. Sharing joy and happiness. Wonderful things to bake and make. We are there as well when sadness hurts so bad. Thanks everyone for yet another year spent with you.

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The weather in New England has been pretty amazing this summer, some heat and lots of pretty sunshine. There were times we swore it would never stop raining but it did and gardens went in and flowers began to grow.

The insects decided it was time to stop by the garden too!

The seeds I planted for food also began to show they were loving the weather.
Yes that is a String Bean blossom and bean on its way to get big enough to eat.

As you can see I love taking photos. I just never thought to show anyone else. I am glad you stopped by to see what I was all about. I am evolving and growing and finding a place here on Word Press for the ones I FOLLOW to stop in and say Hello.

I tell stories, some with photos others so colorful they need none. They are true. I have written a few poems over on 20 Lines A Day where they are so kind.

Here are a few more photos I will someday tie into a post.

This is my little girl Her Name is JT and She is a Border Collie

My really COOL CAT Rhythm

My Last Rig

My Old Life. I was a female owner operator for 27 years . I loved TRUCKING

Thanks for stopping by my blog here on WORDPRESS, so nice to have you.

Arizona is far from home for us. We live in the Northeast and this is the Southwest.

For me, a Trucker I always traveled far from home but for the most part I traveled within the United States with a dash into Canada now and then.

This trip was special as the man I loved was not given much hope of a long life so we packed up the old Chevy van with camping supplies and Gold Prospecting equipment we already had and the pup of course and headed west. He had never been past the military base in Texas and that was so long ago for boot camp. He flew in and out of there. So this would be a journey for him but for me it would be like old times, well without the shifting.

We stayed out on BLM land for 6 or 7 weeks till we had to come back for another visit with his doctor. He did not want to go back home least of all for more tests. I missed home and my kitty too much to hide my head in the sand of the desert. We loaded up the old van and said our goodbyes to all we had met and I snapped a few more photos.

We came home to good news much to their amazement. We could once again take out the map from my old trucking days and plan a trip far from home.

I must say when I go down the list of who I follow through my blog at Living and Lovin I see so many who are just like me. Like minded. Nature lovers. Pet owners. Gardeners of flowers and food.

I once wondered if anyone of my friends would bother to read what I had to say and share by way of a photo here and there and quickly got a true lesson in life, not many if any, take the time to read what I have to say but among the thousands here at WordPress I have a circle of friends who have stuck with me, as I began this journey and are still there just over a year latter.

Blogs come and go but I seem to have enough photos or strange stories to keep a few coming back. They are all eclectic and lived a full life, the same as I did and seem to appreciate all life has to offer.

Poems, story-telling and news breaking stories worthy of my re-blogs I love them all, for with each post they write they share just that little bit of themselves.

I may get lost in all I have going on at times but the real connections are there and for that I am so grateful..

I changed my Hot Pink Peony to Sepia so more could hang it on a wall not many adore them as I do PINK

Mowing like crazy to stop the encroaching forest

Taking photos at Mom’s too as I am not the only one who has some beauties.

I have to tear them apart but have been beading around some cabs
Trying out different combos of beads so the stone, glass, jade etc. as the centerpiece is the real focal point.
Hard time finding ultra suede though.

Waiting for the Rain to STOP

So my flowers can shine and I can finish this house and enjoy SUMMER

More later a friend is bring over lunch for her and I to catch up and then tomorrow digging free plants from a kind donors yard for the Garden Club Then MORE RAIN oh and wind too
Stay safe everyone it is CRAZY out there.

I went through the savings which were sadly, as in most case, s never enough.

I saw an Ad in a local paper for a Special Needs School Bus Driver, surely I could drive a small van.

I applied for the position and they could clearly see my wounds but it was the ones inside that hurt the worst.
Due to my physical injuries I was given the troubled youths to transport to schools where they did not want to attend.

Many never even bothered to get up and shower and dress for the day, never mind step into the van. Very sad.

One by one as they entered my school bus I introduced myself, the one with the huge blue knee brace on.

I asked them to buckle up and not to swear (being a trucker at this point didn’t matter) I turned on music of their liking

just not gangster rap!

I knew they all had stories about how they ended up on a bus such as this. I did too.

I showed them respect and demanded the same right back. Friends were worried about me alone with them.

So many scary stories you read about children such as this. Remember they were the worst of the worst.

No one else at the bus company would drive them willingly. So they gave them to the New Girl!

I had a run in the morning where they were still half asleep then again in the afternoon after no nicotine.

Yes some were angry. Many had nice parents that just could not take it anymore and turned them over to the state.

Some lived with Grandparents God Bless them.

As the days turned into weeks and the weeks turned into years, two of them, I healed. So did they. We stopped listening

to music unless it was them singing to my great-niece in an infant seat while one played the guitar. They had

me to smile and make them feel welcomed each morning and I was their ride away from that school each day.

I had a solid group of eight who had been tossed aside.

Told they would never amount to anything. Have you been mad enough to say that to your child?

They were so talented in so many ways, I was so proud they stuck it out and rode both ways with me. I will always

remember these young people who not only graduated but in the end helped me to heal all the hurt inside.

You all know how much I adore nature and photography that seems to go hand in hand with it , when it comes to me.
I wanted to show you what I have been up to in my spare time.

Yes I am free everyday to do what I want but due to money like the rest of us I chose what I do accordingly.

I am a member of our local garden club I am sure I mentioned that a few times here. You knew we sell plants to put back into our community so here is the latest project 4 out of 5 woman in our group did. Not bad since most are 40-mid 50’s.

This is a shot of a downtown intersection I had moved the urn to in preparation for our Memorial Day parade.
When I placed it here after the winter plows were safely parked I had no idea how grown in and messy this spot had become.
At our monthly meeting on the 13th it was decided we would tackle it weather permitting that upcoming weekend.
We went with shovels and rakes and trash bags too.

One of the woman in the club had borrowed her son in laws pickup to bring supplies. We were all parked off the road in the dirt, and had been for hours when a renter in a home at this intersection gets in his truck and steps on the gas, punches it really and shoots across this busy intersection, with all of us woman working in, and proceeds to slam into the trucks drivers door WHAM! He jumps out of his truck and proceeds to photograph where we were all parked. I laughed at him and said “They talk about WOMAN DRIVERS!” he got so angry, I was hoping he was drunk actually but it seems he is just not all there but still allowed to drive. So I asked for the police to be called so we could continue to work safely. A woman had just walked by his truck with her dog and we were going back and for with weeds, thankfully it was a truck that got hit.

So two officers arrive and the man points to ME lol what he doesn’t know is who I am and how the police know me as a hero and a hard worker. His info was taken and he was sent on his way. The police put out cones for us and put police tape alongside all our cars and trucks. Then stood and talked, while we worked.

Now I have lived here since 1988 and know a few people who also call our town home. So as we are working like crazy woman, up against the weather forecast, a local man with his own excavating company stopped to say hello to me on the side of the road and wondered when I had developed such a Green Thumb!
I reminded him all he never knew me as was a hard-working trucker , then so hurt after the wreck with the bus in 2000 I never had time and then I couldn’t move.
He asked if there were anything he could help me with and I asked if we could get a scoop of nice soil to really turn this corner into a beautiful spot in time. As we worked and tore out all the grass and weeds and junk from the area all this on a quiet Sunday morning he went off to church and his trucks worked all day on another project he was getting paid to do as a prior business owner I know those come first. So as we completed the removal process and I loaded all the saved plant material we would place back into this area, the ladies loaded their tools into their cars and 3 of us made plans to come back at 6 PM. Just before I took off Paul showed back up with his tri axle dump truck with a wonderful amount of soil for us, he is good and good to me. All the ladies had left when he showed up so him and I moved the urn out of the way and I watched him as he backed up and dumped his load of soil making sure no wires were hit or any dummies driving in behind him.

Looks good doesn’t it.

So we go back at 6 PM before rains come and begin to shape this pile and lay down strips of fabric to keep the junk from growing back so we can keep it looking nice. We are too old to WEED!

The last of us here worked till dark laying the plants back in before they got to stressed. I had watered them well when we had taken a 4 hour break but I did not want to lose one plant.

Above is what the area looked like the next day as JT and I drove over some left over mulch the Garden Club had at my home.
I snapped this before I laid down pick up truck runs of the mulch. It had poured all night and it looked bad I was glad I did not wait till any others would be around to help.

This is heading down through our little town and finished intersection will be coming up on the left NEXT!

We will add a little punch of color for the summer but in the years to come these will fill in and the bulbs will add spring color too.

I sure hope the towns people appreciate these areas we work so hard on.

We do it all on plant sales and donations.

Thanks for checking out our town and how we plan on changing one corner at a time!

I have been here for only one year but as all of you know who are still here and follow me what a journey it has been!

I used to be the young girl above, then shortly after so very much pain.

I shared most of it with my followers oh wait maybe that is why I saw a drop in numbers, only kidding!

I know the real reason I am BORING lol

I want to thank those of you who still blog and who have shared this amazing past year with me.

I never thought in a million years I would ever find so many wonderful and amazing souls in one special place. I am glad you are here and sharing your worlds with me!

You know me better than my family members

You love JT as much as me 🙂

You put up with my not so perfect photos I share with you all and in the same breath I get better.

I introduced you to my son and now he will be back east as soon as he finishes with his job he is doing.

Life is good then again after going away for those 10 days in silence I realized it always was.

You give me so much inspiration honest you do.

I read your poems that you wrote or ones others did and let them move me.

You shared your homes and family as did I so now we no longer feel like bloggers but friends who can have too many dear loving friends?

You come from all over the world and I feel so blessed to have met you here.
You have shown me countries I always dreamed of but will never see for myself so thanks to all of you who love photography too!

Should any of you ever travel through New England you know I will always be here to share a cup of coffee with you for we are FRIENDS, new yes just a year or less but still you know me well.

XO

Eunice

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I have had so many awards here on WordPress bestowed upon me and I feel so blessed to have each and everyone of you followers liking and leaving comments and finding each other through some of my posts. Bless you all

The Very inspiring Blogger Award rules are as follows:

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To accept the award, the rules are: -Link back to the person who nominated you : Thank you again Cristi !! Also I would recommend to check out her awesome blog (http://traveltimetalk.com/)

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Awarding the people who live in the moment, The noble who write and capture the best in life, The bold who reminded us what really mattered – savoring the experience of quality time. (Please check out MomentMatters.com).

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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. ~Buddha

I wish to express my sincerest thanks to Moment Matters in selecting my blog for this prestigious honour. It is my privilege to receive this wonderful recognition of my work, an award which I am very honoured to accept and will proudly display on my blog. I am very grateful to my friends on WordPress from whom I have found inspiration and encouragement when life has thrown some “slings and arrows” my way – they have given me much-needed strength – Thank You My Friends!

This award is so important as it reminds one to appreciate when a special moment presents itself, to savour it, not to let it pass without fully embracing it – life’s too short, isn’t it? I know that in the past I’ve been guilty of letting a special moment go unrecognised because I was so preoccupied with the problems life can throw at one. This sincere recognition of one’s work and the reminder to embrace that which is magical in life helps one to see the other side, to find love and beauty in something worthwhile and wholesome, to have belief in oneself and to pass this belief on to others so they may also have an added chance to see what life’s golden treasures are.

A special moment may be a random occurrence, it may be an exciting event long-awaited with many people becoming an important part of the experience. For me personally, I regard the best moments to be the ones shared with other people! Live in the Moment and remember –

“Never do anything that you wouldn’t want to explain to the paramedics”

It is my pleasure and great honor to present this award to my super friends who live in the Moment, congratulations to you all!

I want to thank you all for nominating me for so many many beautiful awards I really appreciate them but mostly you.

I know I have been blogging less but trying to sell prints, cards, IPod skins is hard work and if I was not so poor I would just give up lol

I am doing awesome honest I am that 100 hours of Mediation really was just what my heart needed.

I am busy with gardens, painting the rest of this house, taking rides with my honey and pup and she will turn 7 on Mother’s Day where has the time gone!

I want you all to know these awards are being passed out to all of you I can not follow rules lol so if there is one you do not have already follow the direction not like I did and enjoy the limelight!

Life is so beautiful for me these days I do not want to bore you so I will look to post some blogs on the adventures of my past liking trucking, motorcycles, travel and pets and try to find a place here again amongst all you wonderful writers and poets and photographers and storytellers too!

Thanks for stopping by and saying hi or leaving me a LIKE my reader #@%&s so I miss so much learning to dump COOKIES lol

The WordPress Family Award is reserved for folks in Cyberspace who are unceasingly kind, sympathetic, encouraging, and open to laughter – and who keep each other going by sharing, commenting, and making personal connections even though they may actually be virtual strangers.

Rules:

Display the award logo on your blog.

Link back to the person who nominated you.

Nominate 10 others you see as having an impact on your WordPress experience and family.

Never have I been great at doing these and I even forgot how to grab the url for award photo all I kept getting was the one for this lovely lady at number 1 slot’s info 🙂 yes I have been away and for that I am so thankful I am filled with so much love and joy I can hardly stand it but I will it beats hatred for one’ self hands down!

I love each of you ladies listed here

You have helped me get through this amazing year of letting go as did the rest of you not listed here and the men too I know you stopped by and left your mark.

One month from now I will have been here a YEAR man you all really are family I have a brother I have not seen in over 10 years 😦 that will change too!

So back to you listed above you took a busted up female trucker in and gave me hope for a better life and yes it was hard at times but feeling safe I began to let go and let God and with my son’s help found a new set of tools to live once again oh and chats with him again are icing on the cake!

Love you all and if you do not know each other yet please take the time to say hi to each other

To all over on 20 Lines too many to list you had my back from the start! XOXOXOXO

Well you probably all know by now I have a Portfolio Blog for my photography. As I pass out my business cards they have the link to that blog printed on them. My hope some day is to fill a niche out there. After being online with my photography and selling some I see what competition is like. They add weird colors, do things I have never seen before, guess I don’t get out much, lol. I am glad I am there and have met some nice artist’s, who said we were all dark and moody. I have been accepted as well as some nice comments like you leave me.
All I want to know is if my pieces are nice to look at even if they are just on a single card. Isn’t it what we are all about being accepted for us.

So I have been doing some small things to my pieces with hopes of being seen amongst the 140,000+ others that use that Fine Art America site. Yes I use TAGS like I learned to here to find you all on my list of beloved bloggers. I have loaded my galleries online with hopes that while I am away I have another sale or two. Site cost has been covered so it is all gravy except for the hours it takes to promote one’s self. So that is where I spend a few hours a day straightening up photos, adding into galleries, entering competitions for fun where others from FAA and the outside world casts a vote on what they like again 300 to 500 sign up for contests I see it as a rat race as you writer’s and photographers already know. I am a trucker through and through that I do know how to do.

So today I took a photo from this winter at the beach and added it

Then I played with it to give it a different look

In Black and White with funky dark edges

Now I did this all in the name of sales, giving them choices of an image and I am sure some like B&W’s but me I love my world in COLOR lots of it but it has been a winter from hell lots of snow and horribly cold like the day I took the photo of this poor gull holding on for dear life. I promised I would get out there and play this winter and in between shoveling JT and I took lots of walks while Daddy was busy finding treasure.

Funny how this all came to be isn’t it I love this winding journey I have been on. First finding Ron after over 35 years apart then my child then all of you starting just last Memorial Day.

You all are the best I have so many awards from you and more yet to post on I hope to do another post just on them before I head out

So back to the photos which one do you like? I say I should post only ones I adore and if there is no market I am not out of money as I had sales to cover the $30 year fee.

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Hi everyone. No I am not lost but usually I shovel then suffer in pain but it is the workouts that have me seeing consistent success now at the scale on Tuesdays and is getting me closer to goal which will be a HEALTY weight never scrawny . I need my strength to make it through my meditation as well as that new English Garden I will be working on if winter ever let’s go of her death grip up here. No don’t worry just hard on old broken bodies but my sense of humor such as it is will get me to spring oh and the rains! Today NH is under the spell of another huge storm and why I am getting rains when others are getting twelve more, heavy wet inches of snow I have no idea but you know I am so grateful for each and every drop for it is melting our snowpack and snow on the roofs is shrinking too he said it was too slippery to climb up yesterday which worried me with the weight of heavy wet snow ruining so many homes and businesses elsewhere. Well I sold my conversion van and made another friend. She too is an author with all of you here I follow and follow me I can surely get my three written! I sold the van to get cash to fix my pick-up the one with the PLOW kind of late now as the birds are already singing their hearts out looking for the prettiest girls in town. I will scrub hummingbird feeders again to make sure no dust has gotten into the bags I store them in and get the seeds started for my garden even if I have to grow in 5 gal. buckets or a pallet have you seen that on Pinterest? I think this year I will even start Sunflowers in egg cartons or yogurt cups as I have plenty of empties and this way after the diet of black oil sunflower seeds I have been going through with my wildlife so far almost 400 lbs. of seed, they will not be able to dig up the ones I hide to line my yard with. Hard to outsmart wildlife though I am sure something hungry will come for the green growth like us and our salad greens!

So how have you all been? Life good or hard right now? I love hearing from you all and that some of you are regular visitors to my Portfolio Blog please me. You can comment on any blog. Tell me if you like certain photo or what you don’t like remember the only thing I have ever been a professional at is a driver, a big rig driver so you can help by chiming in . Some of you know I have been selling my photos on FAA under Eunice Miller and that I even set up a Facebook page that will link my photographs I have placed for sale right to their site in most cases. If you are artists that have begun to follow my blog thank you. Blogging has made me a better photographer still not anything to write home about but me and my little Kodak Easy Share once in a while capture something pretty and moving to some besides me for which I am thankful for isn’t that why we decide to step out of our nice comfy spot at home and reach out to the world at large with art and words. I would not have gotten to know you all had I not taken that very first step last Memorial Day weekend. I am blessed by each and every one of you and I think you already know that by what we have shared.

Now it wouldn’t be a Living and Lovin blog without a photo or two so this is what I have been thinking of

My Lilacs in full bloom calling out to all the insects and pretty butterflies that adore them as much as I do even Ron loves them JT loves to smell them she is a girl you know and all girls love pretty flowers.

For the bees to arrive so my fruit trees will bless us and the wildlife who also love fruit.

Now the Forsythia that are all over this place we call home are sure signs of SPRING arriving.

Now for this year along with the new English Garden area Ron will make me a sculpture as he was a welder for 35 years before retiring early with injuries. I am thinking something in pretty copper but maybe a mix if they can be put together with the arc from his welding rod. He is the pro so I will let him do his thing and praise the heck out of him because he is a good man to put up with me and so much sadness though it has gotten so much better since I have stopped hiding. So look for a blog on his artist work in the future here.

I will also divide my Hostas for an upcoming Garden Club Plant Sale in early May and take some new Lilacs and move them to my berm on the eastern side of my property I will add some shoots of Forsythia on berm as well because they will look beautiful as they grow and drape along this area with the Lilacs up above with a few little pretty shaped Pines. It will provide me with Privacy yes but mostly block the Orange Fence(plastic snow fence) from my view while I sit and tend to my garden since I do not see her as ever taking it down, even though it sits on the towns right a way.

So for now I will look and deal with the CRUD of Winter with visions of a beautiful spring!

We will hang out by the sea a lot till them even on a lousy weather day we can always find a ray of hope here along the water’s edge.

Take care everyone and again stop in at anyone of my places here on the world-wide web, you are more than welcome.

Do you use the Reader on Google? I have been 2 hours trying to catch up with many of you and sadly it has not gone well, more like pulling teeth, OUCH. Computer is so slow don’t know if it is the weather or just and old computer or if it is GOOGLE I just wish I could make it FAST! I miss you all. I did have a RSS feed that sat up on the top of my page but when changing search engines or something I lost that. So if you have the time to email me at myremmy@hotmail.com or Eunice356@gmail.com I would love to hear from you. PLEASE.

Now I spoke of WEATHER yes seems that is all I have done lately sorry but it is winter in New England and not sunny South Beach.
Here is a look out of living room window looking south towards the river.

Yes pretty.

It is light and fluffy and my back is so happy for that.

Wildlife is too by the looks of the back yard.

JT and I will go fill the feeders and after 3 when they come for supper I will do my wild bird count.

I sold the van yesterday to a couple who wants to use it to go on trips like we used it for and now halfway to what I need to fix the transmission RIGHT THIS TIME hopefully. Then to take rusted parts off and add a wooden floor in the back and pretty wood rails she will not look like my Mopar when I bought her but it will still push this dang snow so all we will need to shovel is porch and brick area and the ROOF. I hope they will have many good times in the van life is short.

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Well by now most of you know our JT (Jess-Tex) at least in photos. She is our Border Collie and no we do not have a farm.

I have shared my life with fourteen dogs five of which were part of a litter that went on to new homes where they were adored family members.

This dog above was born at a friend’s home, the male her father was from Texas and they drove from Vermont to pick him up. JT’s mother was a dog that was dropped off at their place in Vermont. Gorgeous lighter Gray with white. She was scared who knows the kind of life had she lead.

JT was like the runt with a not so perfect face marking and it was just her sister and her no one had chosen to be theirs.

Now I wanted no more dogs but here were the two prettiest faces begging to be loved. I said I wanted both, actually could not believe that came out of my mouth. The daughter said she was taking the tri color one. I was taking JT as long as they were both fixed, I didn’t care.

The day we found her in the horse stall with her sister, we had been camping with a three-year old great-niece so we went home to NH but when I got to my house I called them and said I would be back up for the pup I had fallen in love with. Her husband was going to be in NH on a welding job so he brought the pup with him so we did not have to go all the way back to northern Vermont.

We bought a leash and collar as well as bowl and water, as it would be a long ride for a puppy and headed north.

We took the pickup truck with a bench seat so she could lay between us. Funny as I look back six and a half years later at that ride home. She would lay her head on my leg then wander over to the passenger side for his leg. She was trying to settle in on that big seat but wanted to be close to both of us, her HERD.

We stopped often to walk her, and to let her have some water and then she was scooped up again and placed in the middle between us. It is where she has always ridden till he bought this new truck with the big back seat. All hersto be sure.

She had been born on Mother’s Day and in October she took her first really long ride down to Georgia. We went gold prospecting with a club he belonged to and she set about making many new friends that weekend. It was really rainy and nasty, creeks were swollen I was so glad this camping trip was in a cabin with a hot tub.

This pup has led a very interesting life to be sure. She could have a blog of her own.

We no sooner got back from our trip to Georgia when we set in motion an epic cross-country trip that would include sleeping out in the wild, in a tent for the month of December. Not too worry we would be in Arizona and it is still warm right?

We bought an old RV and he made it road worthy and we were looking forward to an amazing journey together. Then the gas prices soared so we scrapped the idea of taking the old beast back west where it had actually been made. I looked for a van cheaper on gas and room for all we would need to bring with us. I found a pretty cool looking Chevy van, a conversion van the kind with a bench seat that lays down and can be used as a bed. We bought it from a group of men who used it to go back and forth to New England Patriot football games. Yes tailgaters. It has a HUGE Patriots Loge on one whole window. I never thought about the fact we were going to be in the Super Bowl and the game would be in Arizona!

What a trip that was from the start. JT could feel the excitement. I rented a place for our cat to go where, she was to be treated like a Queen, for the money she better have been the center of attention. He made a rack for the hitch, the fact he was a welder for 30 years came in handy. On this rack we took the tool box off the pick-up and placed our clothes and tenting supplies as well has some dry goods like JT’s Food and dog bones. We would be on BLM land and there would be no stores, no street lights, no phones. JT would be the only one out of the three of us to do nothing but play as any pup will do. They said rattle snakes would have taken cover as well as the other critters who live under ground, I was hoping so.

So we loaded up and headed south, I had to say good-by and Merry Christmas to Mom on our way. We opened our gifts and had a beautiful meal then loaded back into the van and headed out of New England. Leaving what we thought of winter behind us as well.

As we headed south through Massachusetts we heard a lot of horn blowing and people giving me the THUMBS UP signs that was different for me having been in a big rig all those years and it was never a THUMB I got! People were excited, they saw the sign and our team was in the hunt for a ticket to the BIG GAME! When we hit NJ the looks changed, funny how that works.

I stopped on the NJ Turnpike to top off of the gas tank when a big dark-colored Suburban pulls on the other side of the pump. It had those really dark windows, looking kind of sinister. This is a place they pump for you, so as I am sitting and waiting I hear a horn beep then I see the black glass start to open and there were four huge black men smiling at me I was kind of confused then one pointed to the SIGN on our window and said GO PATS!!! They could have been players looking at the size of them! It was like that the whole trip out. Just random strangers stopping us to congratulate our team on the playoffs and wishing us well on our journey. They all petted JT. I swear more love was given to her that first year of her life. No wonder she chooses humans over animals to play with. She never new life as a dog.

Hello 2013 and goodbye 2012. Wow! What a year! It was a year filled with growth and change for this farm and its people. Almost more than we could keep up with ourselves! But that is not a bad thing when you are chasing a very big and ambitious dream, and the dream is only beginning to unfold. Yes, we work hard here, but it is still rewarding and it is the best work I know! Of all the hundreds of photos taken around the farm, I have managed to winnow this year down to a few highlights:

First and foremost, we welcomed our newest family member, who belongs to our son Ross and his wife Acacia. Silas William Mehaffey was born on December 31. He is as they say, a real “keeper!”

In the cold early winter months of 2012, the boys started work on the foundation and drainage for the new cooler. They also began welding parts for the new greenhouse. Bill and I took…

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Enter through this door and travel by elevator to the different levels full of Art!

Common area

Metal Man creates these sculptures from trash he collects

Hallways are lined with art as well as many rooms full of all kinds of Art

Someone else loves dogs

Hanging from piping

Wonderful artist was more than happy to let me take a few photos

Metal Man had walls and walls of interesting re-purposed items Loved this section!

Zentangle taught here too! I love doing this too as well as my friend Val who takes her lessons from this studio.

Zentangle kits and supplies sold here

This artist had a wonderful shop full of so many beautiful pieces to choose from

Old Mill Building had a display of colorful spools of thread that caught my eye

Most of the artists also offered some snacks

This shop was same one that offered Zentangle

Metal Man piece

Yes Art of every kind can be found here. In many rooms I did not ask if I could take photos, the ones I did were happy to hear I would do a blog on the Western Avenue Studios in Lowell MA, to get the word out.

The month of December they are open each weekend before Christmas. Usually it is OPEN STUDIOS the first weekend of the month.

If you will be in Massachusetts and looking for something fun to do, stop in this old mill building and get up close to those who are creating art right there in their spaces. They want you to watch and also ask questions as well.

A friend and I went as light snow fell and while the outside of this building gives no hints about what is inside, you now know the secret that is held just behind all those bricks.

You can get some great pieces for gifts, that are one of a kind. Maybe you do Interior Design please keep this place in mind for some great deals.

Step into the elevator just inside the door go all the way to the 5th floor and work your way down.

Remember I told you about my best friend well here she is with me on a very happy occasion, Graduation Day. I had been out of School since January and the last thing I wanted was to be apart of this ceremony. It was June, it was nice out and I had to go because Dad bought me this beautiful corsage. Not sure if it was Dad or Mom taking this photo but I am sure they told me to SMILE! I was always the kid in school looking out the window wishing I was outside. I really did not like too many teachers in the 12 years I attended. Back in school in the 60’s and 70’s too much was happening OUT THERE to be STUCK IN THERE.
I did have a female teacher MS HILL in fourth grade now she was cool! She was our science teacher and a Hippie I bet looking back on the times. She had pretty long dark hair and I swear long grey streaks from the part down both sides of her head maybe we made her prematurely grey. I remember her outfits as do all the boys from my fourth grade class I am sure. Mini skirts were all the rage. Our school had to add partitions to the fronts of the desks, as they were not mini skirts they were micro mini’s! It was the only class I saw the boys sit in the front two rows, normally they raced to hide in back. So now really why I loved my fourth grade Science class was because she loved science and it showed. She taught us about the night-time sky and even had a field trip to a place in town where it was really dark. We came with our families and all stretched out on our blankets while MS Hill explained the stars and what each constellation was. How many teachers have that much joy that they give up a night to spend laying on the grass with students. I think of her often when I camp and spend so much time with my eyes looking up into the night sky. Where I live there is no light pollution and I swear some nights there are billions of stars just over my head. I wish I could find her to thank her for fourth grade as it was not till I went into ninth grade did I get that same feeling. It was a new school and lots of new people I had never met. There were so many classes to choose from and so many trades to try out. We spent 6 or 8 weeks in each one to see if it was match for us. I wanted Auto Body bud sadly it was 1970 and girls were not allowed in trades full of men. I wanted to sculpt cool outer shells for FAST CARS. I had friends older that were always messing with their rides. It is because of them and my Dad and all the time spent at the race track that I want to make them special. I also loved Culinary Arts we learned to chop, and dice as well as bake the most wonderful pastries We learned how to waitress and even had our own restaurant with in the school to practice at for the real world. I also took Drafting and Technical Illustrating oh and Electronics too! It was Secretarial Sciences I ended up with as I loved Shorthand! I was fast too. Then came tenth through twelfth grades and I could care less about going. I had no choice Mom would remind me I would graduate if it was the last thing she would do!

So was it the lack of enthusiastic teachers I had or was there a problem with me? Most teachers we had did not like children. We had ones that would yell and scream and send you off to the office or ones who would go in the back room and drink we even had one flip out in class like he was on acid. There was one cool teacher who taught us about the Mafia, WHY? Cool dude though he would go off with the young girls and they would all come back HIGH. Yes these were different times in the 60’s and 70’s and I for one was so happy to walk out in January of 1974 . I just was not happy having to attend graduation. I know Mom and Dad were so proud of me but I always felt as if there was a whole world OUT THERE and I was MISSING IT!

I am so glad my best friend was there. I kissed my parents good-bye and we set out to attend some Graduation Parties.

I have been out of school now for 38 years and would love to go to a Art School or maybe just teach young girls to appreciate life, not to settle and to never stand for abuse, of any kind.

Hi Everyone! Alex over at Worldly Winds has bestowed upon me this award. Thank You Alex you have been there since the start of my endeavor into the world of Blogging. I love your two spots where you leave some of the prettiest of poems.

Carol over at http://carolwelsh.wordpress.com/ Her photos inspire me as do her poetry selections

Nancy over at http://notsofancynancy.wordpress.com/ She has been telling us the most beautiful story of her families history.

Brenda over at http://beebeesworld.wordpress.com she shares gut wrenching stories of sadness and loss, I adore her for her strength you see her and I both have so much pain she writes and I usually just add photos Brenda I wish your STARS to grow as you have in your blogging xo

Desert Rose over at http://echosfromtheabyss.wordpress.com/ for being with us and wishing me well on my journey

Linda over at http://coloradofarmlife.wordpress.com/ for always being there to comment and tell me she has enjoyed a post I have added, Thanks Linda!

Emily over at Hoof Beats and Foot Prints at http://bellaremyphotography.com/ she has always left me wonderful messages after seeing a post she liked thanks so much.

Cathy over at http://wordsandherbs.wordpress.com/ You are always there ready to brighten my day and you have taught me so much as we share are love of gardening and life an ocean apart. Thanks so much Cathy.

Deb over at http://romancingthebee.com you have made me appreciate Bees here in my landscape for the Yummy Honey they make for the hive owners, oh and THE FOOD I can not say enough on what you have shown us through your blog to do with this nectar Thanks! Continued success to your and your newly released cook book

Cindy over at http://cindyknoke.com/ for finding me and sharing herself and the places she has been and always being so kind.

Dor at Virginia Views http://countryliving4beginners.wordpress.com for also reading and commenting on my posts thanks you for the chats we have had

Lindell over at http://poeticlicensee.wordpress.com/ for always taking the time to read and comment on my very busy spot here on WordPress thanks so much and for your beautiful poems as well

Susan over at http://letterstorosa.wordpress.com/ for being a new friend here at my blog and also for her stories from her families history her and Nancy as well as Brenda all make me want to start to share mine too Thanks so much again.

Bette over at http://4writersandreaders.wordpress.com/ who also inspires me to add words with my photos Thank you her and Susan live close by one to my right the other to my left up here in our pretty area of this country we call home

Lily over at http://apronhead.wordpress.com for her love of photography and for sharing her HUMMERS with me

Dave over at http://thephoblography.wordpress.com/ for sharing your country with me and always stopping by mine you may need a bigger award I have posted TOO MANY thanks so much

Jenny over at http://ramblingsfromamum.wordpress.com/ for always being so supportive Thanks so much

Naomi over at writing between the lines http://naomibaltuck.wordpress.com/ for our conservations on many subjects Thanks

Jen at http://marcatodesigns.wordpress.com for her passion for life and BEADS I love what you do but you know that 🙂

Rita over at http://ritaroberts.wordpress.com/ she doesn’t probably know this but some day I would love to be a part of a DIG we do know how to swing a detector and dig but you can’t find what she did as bones from ancient things are just under us EVERYWHERE always wanted to do her JOB lol Thanks for the follow Rita 🙂

Marisa over at http ://myyearlongjourney.com/ I love the blog you have as I too have been on a MISSION

Boomie over at http://boomiebol.wordpress.com for being there from the start with pretty words as well xo

Pat over at http://patwoodblogging.wordpress.com/ I LOVE YOUR STORIES and they help me get to where I can write my on HUGS as we are both on missions to free our abodes of STUFF

http://dogdaz.com/ Thank You and the rest of you listed here know how I adore dogs and Pets 🙂

Patrick over at http://hikingphoto.com/ for with your BIG camera you inspire me and many others to get out and capture life and in my case on a VERY SMALL CAMERA 🙂 Thanks for sharing your world I see you do not do awards but your many followers will agree you deserve them

It really all blossomed so to speak from here with so many writers and a wonderful vision from the sweetest lady MELISSA who began this safe place for us all to share http://anexerciseindiscipline.com/ The BIGGEST HUG is sent to you for allowing me to share photos with you and the rest of the followers Thanks so much

OK I am going to end this list now as I must get something done around here it is one month till Christmas I must get some pretty gifts ready for the store. Enjoy this NEW Award Post it proudly and Collect the Stars you Deserve and Thanks again Alex for bestowing it on me XO

Please if I have missed you on this TELL ME as you can clearly see I have so many of you to thank and I want you all to have STARS before 2013 ARRIVES

6 As a winner of the award – please add a link back to the blog that presented you with the award – and then proudly display the award on your blog and sidebar … and start collecting stars…

Yes – that’s right – there are stars to collect!

Unlike other awards which you can only add to your blog once – this award is different!

When you begin you will receive the ‘1 star’ award – and every time you are given the award by another blog – you can add another star!

There are a total of 6 stars to collect.

Which means that you can check out your favourite blogs – and even if they have already been given the award by someone else – you can still bestow it on them again and help them to reach the maximum 6 stars!

‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award Badges

Here are the six badges for you to collect – you can either ‘swop’ your badge for the next one each time you are given the award – or even proudly display all six badges if you are lucky enough to be presented with the award six times!

Ok I am so tired from working on my feet all day with the Willow,Beavers and now a Raccoon I love all of you who leave comments and follow me you know I mean it when I say it This took me over an hour to do so maybe no blog till AM 😦 I wish I could Drag,Copy and Paste my who followers list here for all of you to meet

At this time we adorn our heads with Līgos of flowers, oak leaves,
grasses and plants. We join circles around bonfires and celebrate life,
and our appreciation of each other.

Here’s ourLīgo Circle of Appreciation
among fellow bloggers.

For duration of 22 days, starting on 1st October 2012, we will be inviting
2 bloggers per day
to join the Līgo Circle of Appreciation.

PLEASE NOTE: This is an Appreciation, NOT an Award.

To fully participate in the Līgo Circle of Appreciation:
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* Complete this sentence about blogging: ”A great blog is…”
* Refer back to the blogger who invited you
* Invite 2 bloggers to join the Līgo Circle of Appreciation on a post

A great blog to me is one where I learn something new about this world we live in. From Gardening, to Cooking to photography to life it’s self.

My friend Cathy over at http://wordsandherbs.wordpress.com has shared this Circle of Appreciation with me. Thank You Cathy. I am glad I can make you smile you make me exercise so I can eat all the yummy food that graces your BLOG. xo

I can only invite two now how to do that with almost 500 of you to pick from and your blogs I all love or I would not follow. So below are the two that will get the nod.

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Our friends live on top of a Mountain/Hill and they raise reining horses and Border Collies and of course their children as well.

They had a horrible thunder and lightning storm hit their area of VT and lost every animal that was in their huge barn. Horses, border collie pups, female horses just getting ready to foal, it was sickening to see the loss and the pain the family went through, being helpless to help the animals when the lightning hit.

We had JT from litter before the one lost and took her up to see her old family and to give them hugs.

Here are the two horses that were outside and the dogs that were in the house, plus our JT , she loves when we go there.

Our little female has no idea how big this horse is and how quick she can move

She was scaring me.

Her brother is even crazier he is always up against these two female horses heels

Sad to think of all the horses that used to run here, now just two females, sisters.

Tex is the father of all the pups that were born here.

She is watching them

JT’s brother Tex’s son

Tex respects these giants, he has been chased before.

These horses mess with the dogs and their toy balls as they really are all young and playful.